Angela Clarke

Career Clarke is an author, columnist, and playwright who has written for Cosmopolitan, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent, The Vagenda, and The Wharf. She has written The Wharf "Blonde's Eye View" column since 2003.

Prior to becoming a writer, she worked as a creative agent in the fashion industry for ten years. Daily Mail published her anonymous column "Confessions of a Fashionista", in which she wrote about her experience working in the industry. Clarke revealed her identity and true account with the release of her best-selling memoir of the same name, which was published by Virgin Books in January 2013.

Chugging for Kittens, Clarke's single-scene playlet about two people collecting donations for a cat charity, premiered in 2015. Her debut full-length play The Legacy, which is set in Harpenden, premiered at Islington's Hope Theatre in June 2015. The comedy drama is about a feminist activist living in the suburbs. She signed a two-book deal with Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins, in October 2015.

Her debut fictional crime novel Follow Me was released in December 2015. Clarke has been a victim of online harassment herself, especially after writing an article about feminism for The Guardian. In January 2016, Clarke hosted the book's launch event at Waterstones in St Albans. That same month, Follow Me was named Amazon.com's "Debut of the Month". Clarke was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association's 2016 Dagger in the Library Award, and Follow Me was short listed for the Dead Good's "Papercut Award for Best Page Turner". Her book Watch Me is scheduled to be published in January 2017.

In addition to writing, Clarke works as a reader for The Literary Consultancy and is a public speaker. In 2013, she discussed her book Confessions of a Fashionista at the inaugural St Albans Fashion Week (SAFW). In 2014, she participated in "A Girls' Night Out" alongside three women's fiction novelists as part of the inaugural St Albans Literary Festival. She was on the festival's "Killer Women Crime Fiction Panel" in 2016.

Personal life Clarke is married to economist Sam Williams. Follow Me (2015) Watch Me (2017)

Plays Chugging for Kittens (2015), a one-scene playlet The Legacy (2015)